Where did you get that info? I believe he did both — penetrated with a foreign object and his penis.

Right? I feel like everything I’m reading related to this guy I have an automatic “what the fucking fuck” reaction to.

You can’t understand anything she’s saying because she’s not making any sense, period. It’s not you. This girl just has really gross, privileged views on rape and doesn’t know how to form sentences that make logical sense.

“Sometimes rape is because of the raped.”

I know it’s not in evidence but I have a hard time believing that her violation was “only” digital.

I said somewhere else, but that is the single most incoherent statement I’ve read all day. It didn’t even make me mad when I first read it because it was so mind numbingly stupid (eventually the anger burned through).

And pine needles.

This is why a friend whose dad was a very nice guy and a child molester made such a point to talk about it. She wanted everyone to know that her dad was the kind of guy everyone loved and respected - and who nevertheless was raping his own children.

I feel like this plus his father's letter should be used as textbook examples of rape culture and how it persists.

I mean, look, OK — I can imagine that it might be shocking and very upsetting if a close friend or family member of yours whom you always thought was a great person was accused of such a thing. You might have a hard time believing it at first, and be in some denial. I guess that’s almost unavoidably human; it’s hard…

Does she think rapists spend all their non-rape time kicking puppies and twirling their mustaches while cackling?! I suppose it’s more comforting to believe that evil is always legible.

It sounds like he is surrounded by a bunch of asshole enablers who have always told him he can do no wrong. So shocking that he ended up as a remorseless rapist.

Don’t forget that the caption on that high school photo was “D’awwwwwwwww!”

Hell that makes it worse! I would think “if this is such a nice, caring person why did he single me out to violate?!”

Does she honestly think it makes a lick of difference to rape survivers if the person who assaulted them was “nice” to other people?!?

“Rape on campuses isn’t always because people are rapists.”

i’ve tried to write varying replies, some hateful, some making fun of him; but to be honest, i am very disturbed when i look at this photo, and i cannot even begin to imagine the pain of the victim. i think about if i were her and i fell into the blackhole of the internet and read what everyone was saying in response…

You might need actually get in your car and drive far, far away. He’s being a dick and you don’t deserve that shit.